This is applicable to far more than stroke victims. Any manner of brain interference should have the same ruleset. Reading through the comments, this ruleset should apply to everyone regardless of their medical situation. Chiming in with a +1 to fitness, and diet. It helps, massively.
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Captain Obvious chiming in here, but as one of those boring douche canoes whose concerns are data privacy, data locality and generally the ability to understand how AI trains off of and manipulates the data we feed it, I'm resistant to the tech. We're testing the use of AI to aggregate and explain patterns in the data we have, but this is limited to our ticketing systems and Slack. Until our current choice of AI provider can guarantee that our transactional data won't be stored outside of the EU, the people driving this internally and those keen to make the sale externally can take a long walk off of a short pier. I can almost smell the aroma of the coffee machine from the chamber in which an EU subcommittee is working on the Artificial Intelligence Act (AIA) (EU) 2025/xxxx to add to the raft of regulations that financial entities in Europe need to concern themselves with. Maybe they'll be nice and just append it to an existing act.
AI might be great. AI might be terrible. I'm not all convinced that most data aggregation features baked into AI and used by most normal companies couldn't be implemented in R or SQL (disclaimer: I couldn't code my way out of a wet paper bag if the tool I was told to use was an axe). It's just wanted so that someone can crawl over data sets to ask simple questions like 'how many merchants exceeded n number of transactions between a and b date' or 'My customer needs an eIDAS certificate. What do I ask them to send us without having to talk to Captain Obvious?'. I mean, we're busting a gut on revamping our developer docs, but given that the spec is already public, I'm pretty sure that developers can already vibe code against that. Going to test that and see how it gets on.
I am a walking, talking, laughing, smiling result of the effects of immunotherapy. I was on Pembrolizumab on a six week cycle across eighteen months, administered at Charing Cross Hospital in London, after diagnosis in early 2022. It effectively dealt with my lung and brain cancer, with minimal side effects. This year, I returned to the gym and am sucking up every last opportunity to extract as much fun as I can with my wife. I am amongst the luckiest of souls, and feel deeply sorry for everyone who is losing to or has lost someone to cancer.
psnosignaluk commented on Cancer: Huge DNA analysis uncovers new clues bbc.co.uk/news/health-611... · Posted by u/open-source-ux
I was recently diagnosed with cancer. I've had brain surgery to remove 2 x tumours, targeted Gamma Knife radiotherapy to isolate treatment on an additional 18 lesions in my brain, and a week ago, started immunotherapy for my lungs. All of this has been handled through the NHS, some very clever blood tests and a ton of scans and cross checks. I welcome the additional work being done by the NHS and Cancer Research UK to improve the diagnostic and treatment quality of the disease. Very thankful that I happen to live in the UK as I go through this.
psnosignaluk commented on Show HN: It is pants or shorts weather? skorotkiewicz.github.io/p... · Posted by u/modinfo
Brit here. When dressed, I always wear pants. But I switch between trousers and shorts depending on weather and circumstances.
Amen brother, amen.
psnosignaluk commented on Ask HN: My client want an agent on my laptop. Is this the new normal? · Posted by u/illud_tempus
At a company like the one I work for, it's a hill noone can afford to die on. PCI-DSS demands at least some control over employee laptops to ensure that certain secure configuration standards are met. That entails dropping command and control agents on machines. Say what you will about PCI and credit card cartels, but no accreditation, no business.
That said, as I work from home, my work laptop lid remains closed for all but a fortnightly company all-hands meeting, and I ensure that I keep zero personal data on it. I'd be an absolute no if the demand ever morphed to always on video or activity trackers. That's a bridge too far.
As it stands, I understand the need for some policy enforcement/remote control of their assets, but will make whatever moves I must to ensure that policy doesn't infringe on the rest of my environment.
I'm just going to jump in with an utterly pointless "woohoo!" As a gRPC shop, this is going to open up a lot of options for both our own infra and make it easier to support clients on AWS. Now if only Azure would make it easy to implement solutions that leverage gRPC...
psnosignaluk commented on How Did Vim Become So Popular? pragmaticpineapple.com/ho... · Posted by u/nikolalsvk
I've used vi for 25 years now, starting on a m68k based BSD machine. It's an adequate editor, handy in remote shell sessions and good to know how to use, but I'd MUCH rather use an IDE or a windowed editor with menus and mouse and hotkeys like Sublime. I mean real hotkeys, not emacs.
At the end of the day, it takes a certain kind of mind to like vi, and if you're not of that mind, you probably never will be.
I think it depends heavily on what you're doing. My world is full of YAML/HCL/cnf files, and if I'm writing code, Go, where code is for software that runs from the command line, a daemon, or a no frills API/web service. Atom/VSCode and other IDE's were wasted on me, so I found myself gravitating back to Vim for its ease of use for those use cases. That said, vim-bootstrap did save me effort of getting a pretty solid editor out of Vim without having to think too hard about it.
Well, what kind of stack are you using?
To cover most uses, I'd suggest looking at SonarQube (most popular, not a fan), CodeClimate - metrics and quality and Codacy.
Thanks. Having a look at Codacy.
One thing to remember is that you do need to treat your servers as "cloud servers" in the sense that you should be able to re-generate your entire setup from your configuration at any time, given a bunch of IPs with freshly-installed base OSs. That means ansible or something similar.
If you insist on using cloud (virtual) servers, do yourself a favor and use DigitalOcean, it is simple and direct and will let you keep your sanity. I use DO as a third-tier disaster recovery scenario, with terraform for bringing up the cluster and the same ansible setup for setting everything up.
I am amused by the section about not making friends saying this :-) — most developer communities tend to develop a herd mentality, where something is either all the rage, or is "dead", and people are afraid to use their brains to experiment and make rational decisions.
Me, I'm rather happy that my competitors fight with AWS/Azure access rights management systems, pay a lot of money for hosting and network bandwith, and then waste time on Kubernetes because it's all the rage. I'll stick to my boring JVM-hosted Clojure monolith, deployed via ansible to a cluster of physical servers and live well off the revenue from my business.